CORPORATE GIVING

Corporate Philanthropy's Biggest Givers

How do companies go about the business of philanthropy? For the third
year, BusinessWeek decided to ask them.

We invited companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index to report
on their 2004 giving. We heard from 204 companies, or 41%. Of those, 190
reported numbers reflecting their cash gifts; 140 provided values for
in-kind gifts such as products and services. We used the information
they reported to rank companies by cash gifts, cash gifts as a
percentage of pre-tax profits and in-kind gifts as a percentage of
pre-tax profits. Now we invite you to check out their reports for
yourself.